Qualitative Verbal Process In Stylistic Interpersonal Projection

'Trust in the computer, Mr Rumpole, and you'd have so much more time, leisure-wise. That's the …'
'Name of the game?' I hazarded.

That	's	the
			name of the game	I	hazarded
Token	Process: relational	Value		Sayer	Process: verbal
" 1				2

Experientially, a Quality (meaning) is realised in this instance as a verbal Process (wording). The Quality is a Quality of projection (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 210-1), since it construes probability — this being agnate with a cognitive sensing. Thus the author stylistically imbues a verbal Process with both the manner of the Process, and a suggestion of cognition.

Interpersonally, this is also stylistically suggestive of interpersonal projection (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 698-700), with the projecting verbal clause realising modality — a low value of modalisation: probability.

That	's	the
			name of the game	possibly
Subject	Finite	Complement		Mood Adjunct

Projection As Enhancement And The Neutralisation Of Relational Mode

α			x β  manner: comparison
that	's	mine	as	the devil	said	of the dead policeman
Carrier	Process	Attribute		Sayer	Process	Matter
Token		Value

In this (abridged) clause complex from Ulysses, a quote, which is congruently realised as a clause in a paratactic nexus of projection is realised instead as the dominant clause of a hypotactic nexus of enhancement; and the figure that would congruently be realised as the projecting clause is here realised instead as the dependent clause of the nexus.  By this use of ideational metaphor, Joyce construes both meanings at once, the projection and the comparison.

With regard to the double coding of the relational clause, Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 295) point out that, for this type of possessive clause, in operative voice, the attributive and identifying modes are not syntagmatically distinct.  The clause could be either attributive: the dead policeman is a member of the class of the devil's possessions, or identifying: the dead policeman is identified as belonging to the devil.